Side Stream: A Journal

writing

  • on crying after pap smears and sex

    Possibly deeply common. In fact, I know it is. Still unnerving — still enraging — at this point still part of my growth/healing, part of…

  • love a life

    I love a life where I step through town on a sunny afternoon reminiscing about this morning — driving down mountain from new lover’s home…

  • the reversal

    There was an era in which I, upon viewing someone journaling in a coffee shop or hearing my co-worker talk about heading home to craft,…

  • don’t talk to her

    It’s been closer to 3 decades than 2 of believing deep in all my numbers. 10’s, 7’s, 5’s and 2’s — always right, personal-feeling and…